About EBSA20 - Course H - Role of biosafety professional with respect to occupational health when working with experimental animals, including Zebra fish and other aquatic species
EBSA20 - Course H - Role of biosafety professional with respect to occupational health when working with experimental animals, including Zebra fish and other aquatic species
Instructors: Martin Kuster and Marc Fluttert
Short description of the course:
Working with animals may pose unique risks to animal handlers, lab-technicians or scientists. Improper risk control or issue management may lead to serious consequences in affected people as well as for the company or institution.
Participants of the course will discuss several case scenarios covering
- Aquarium work
- Work with monkeys
- Use of lentiviral vectors
- Use of highly active compounds
- Update on lab-animal allergies
- Review of control strategies and how to apply them
It is expected that participants share their knowledge in the field including issues and control strategies.
The goal of the course is to raise awareness for the cooperation necessary of the safety specialist and the occupational physicians. Also, the course serves as excellent opportunity for refreshing knowledge in the field including risk assessment and risk control measures. A specific focus will lay on discussing the hierarchy of controls and how it applies to an animal research facility.
Main topics to be covered:
- Work in an Aquarium
- Animal bites and allergens
- Issues with handling lentiviral vectors
- workers needing accommodation: pregnant women, immunocompromised people
- Risk control in animal facilities: STOP principle
Target audience:
Biosafety professionals and occupational health professionals tasked with setting up or running occupational health programs in animal research facilities.
CWA 16335:2011 Biosafety professional competence reference
The topic refers to some sections of competence 7.2.4 and training specifications C.2.1.2.2 Occupational health and biosafety as well as specialized competence 7.3 laboratory experiments with small animals (e.g. rodents, fish) and specialist training specification C.2.2.1 Laboratory animal experiments – small animals.